Letter
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Renniel Jayson Jacinto Rosales, Kristel Eunice Geroleo Agena
Summary: The importance of spiritual nourishment in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic is highlighted, along with the social responsibility towards those in need. Practicing 'Alay Kapwa Spirituality' can be a highly useful response in satisfying one's spiritual thirst and social responsibility during the pandemic.
JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Immunology
Masaki Machida, Itaru Nakamura, Takako Kojima, Reiko Saito, Tomoki Nakaya, Tomoya Hanibuchi, Tomoko Takamiya, Yuko Odagiri, Noritoshi Fukushima, Hiroyuki Kikuchi, Shiho Amagasa, Hidehiro Watanabe, Shigeru Inoue
Summary: This study investigated the acceptance and hesitancy towards the COVID-19 vaccine in Japan, finding that 62.1% of participants were willing to get vaccinated. The research also revealed that vaccine acceptance was lower among women, adults aged 20-49 years, and those with a low-income level. Psychological factors, such as the perceived effectiveness of the vaccine and willingness to protect others, were identified as important factors associated with vaccine acceptance.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Nils Chr Stenseth, Guha Dharmarajan, Ruiyun Li, Zheng-Li Shi, Ruifu Yang, George F. Gao
Summary: This article summarizes the timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lessons learned by the public health community, discussing the implications for future public health policy and outlining an agenda for improved pandemic control. It contrasts the ongoing pandemic with the SARS outbreak, identifying areas where valuable lessons were learned as well as key areas where international public health policy failed.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Multidisciplinary
Xiaolei Wang, Fengchang Wu, Xiaoli Zhao, Xiao Zhang, Junyu Wang, Lin Niu, Weigang Liang, Kenneth Mei Yee Leung, John P. Giesy
Summary: This article discusses the importance of environmental factors in global public health emergency response systems, particularly in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. The study proposes several recommendations, including strengthening environmental and wildlife protection, enhancing viral surveillance, and improving early-warning systems, to enhance nations' capacity to respond to public health emergencies.
Editorial Material
Immunology
Matteo Bolcato, Daniele Rodriguez, Alessandro Feola, Giulio Di Mizio, Alessandro Bonsignore, Rosagemma Ciliberti, Camilla Tettamanti, Marco Trabucco Aurilio, Anna Aprile
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the chronic inequality in global healthcare, with vaccination as a key tool to address this issue. Equitable criteria of justice should be identified and applied to vaccination access and administration order.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Sofiane Aboura
Summary: This paper investigates the influence of climate on SARS-CoV-2 virus transmission at a global level. The findings suggest that climate plays a role in the circulation of the virus across countries. Specifically, relative humidity reduces the number of cases and deaths in both low and high regimes, while temperature and wind reduce the number of deaths.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Psychiatry
Sheng Zhi Zhao, Tzu Tsun Luk, Yongda Wu, Xue Weng, Janet Yuen Ha Wong, Man Ping Wang, Tai Hing Lam
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the mental health burden on Chinese adults in Hong Kong, with factors such as shortage of preventive materials, negative perceptions, income reduction, and unemployment associated with higher stress, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Further research and urgent actions are needed to alleviate stress and promote mental health by targeting the identified risk factors.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Medicine, General & Internal
Itsuki Osawa, Tadahiro Goto, Takahiro Tabuchi, Hayami K. Koga, Yusuke Tsugawa
Summary: The study found that during the COVID-19 pandemic, factors such as meaning in life, having a spouse, trust in neighbors, and female gender were positively associated with happiness, while self-reported poor health, anxiety about future household income, psychiatric diseases except depression, and feeling isolated were negatively associated with happiness. Interventions that improve social capital, pandemic control, and economic stimuli may effectively enhance psychological well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Alison T. Mhazo, Charles Chiedza Maponga
Summary: The COVID-19 response in Zimbabwe was shaped by four discursive frames, namely ignorance, denialism, securitisation and state sovereignty. Various regulations and decrees were implemented, including the use of special presidential powers, a strict lockdown, and vaccination as a flagship strategy. The securitisation frame had a large influence on the overall pandemic response, leading to an overly punitive application of disciplinary power and cases of infidelity to scientific evidence. On the other hand, a securitised, geopolitically oriented sovereignty model positively shaped a strong and well-executed vaccination programme.
Article
Geography, Physical
Tao Hu, Siqin Wang, Bing She, Mengxi Zhang, Xiao Huang, Yunhe Cui, Jacob Khuri, Yaxin Hu, Xiaokang Fu, Xiaoyue Wang, Peixiao Wang, Xinyan Zhu, Shuming Bao, Wendy Guan, Zhenlong Li
Summary: This study provides a comprehensive overview of human mobility data usage in COVID-19 studies, identifying sources, methods, and challenges. By reviewing recent publications, researchers and policymakers are guided in conducting data-driven evaluations and decision-making for pandemics and disease outbreaks.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DIGITAL EARTH
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Shing Yau Tam, Victor C. W. Tam, Helen K. W. Law, May Ling Khaw, Shara W. Y. Lee
Summary: The rapid global spread of COVID-19 caught the world unprepared, leading to a necessity for strict measures like community mass masking. Areas where mass masking was implemented timely saw lower transmission rates and more effective disease control, highlighting its importance in preventing the spread of COVID-19.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Yupeng Li, Kul Prasad Kapri
Summary: This paper examines how policy interventions and economic factors affect COVID-19 infections and deaths, finding that countries heavily relying on the service sector and international trade are more susceptible to the spreading and could benefit more from stringent policies.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Abha Saxena, Brook K. Baker, Amanda Banda, Anders Herlitz, Jennifer Miller, Karrar Karrar, Marc Fleurbaey, Esther Chiwa, Caesar Alimisnya Atuire, Iwao Hirose, Nicole Hassoun
Summary: Nationalism has hindered global solidarity, leading to unnecessary loss of life and unequal access to COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics. Current intellectual property systems and trade secrets pose obstacles to increasing manufacturing capacity and ensuring equitable distribution. Proposed solutions include alternative incentives for scientific innovation, overcoming IP barriers through data sharing and IP pooling, transparent and accountable collective procurement, investments in regional R&D capacity, and strengthening national initiatives in health system development and regulatory oversight.
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Jingfang Liu, Caiying Lu, Shuangjinhua Lu
Summary: The study found that videos with shorter length, longer description, reliable information sources, and lower medical content are more popular. Audiences are more inclined to videos in prevention and control status and knowledge and general science categories. The uploader's influence also affects the popularity of the videos.
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Jing Wang, Chuqing Guo, Xiaoxin Wu, Pei Li
Summary: The public's risk perception of public health emergencies is influenced by individual factors, event characteristics, social influencing factors, and individual relationship factors. Additionally, the public's risk perception evolves with the development of the situation, and there are differences in recognition of government departments' control measures.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2022)